Listen, learn, leave

The art of leaderpreneurship has two parts: 1) self awareness and entrepreneurial intelligence and, 2) leading innovators, not managing innovation systems.

Japan’s Olympic chief plans to resign after making derogatory remarks about women, a person close to him said, creating an unusual and disruptive leadership transition less than six months before the Games are scheduled to begin in Tokyo.

Yoshiro Mori, an 83-year-old former prime minister and president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, said at an event on Feb. 3 that meetings with women tend to drag on because they talk too much. In fact, men talk more than women. Female physicians, though, spend more time with patients than male physicians.

If you want to fill the gaps in your leaderpreneurship knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies, then you should start by defining your moral compass directed learning outcomes. I would start with three: listening, learning and leaving.

LISTEN

Listening is a lost art. Doctors don't do it. Husbands don't do it. Politicians don't do it. Most of us don't do it. Active listening means hitting pause on your Type A dashboard and making sure you understand not just what others are saying but what they mean.?Here are some tips on how to do it better.

?Here are some tricks to becoming a better listener :

LEARN

In our increasingly “squiggly” careers, where people change roles more frequently and fluidly and develop in different directions, the ability to unlearn, learn, and relearn is vital for long-term success. It helps us increase our readiness for the opportunities that change presents and our resilience to the inevitable challenges we’ll experience along the way. Adaptive and proactive learners are highly prized assets for organizations, and investing in learning creates long-term dividends for our career development. Based on their experience designing and delivering career development training for over 50,000 people worldwide, the authors present several techniques and tools to help you make learning part of your day-to-day development.??

LEAVE

One of the slickest and most difficult tricks in business or leadership is making yourself disappear. Some call it becoming?a vanishing mediary. ?Some call it?business transition planning.? Others?lead from behind ?, like a sheep herder?or "unbossing"

Here are the problems with legacy leaving.

?Many men claim to support gender inclusion and equity, but at the same time, struggle to see gender discrimination and harassment in their day-to-day work. They lack situational awareness, a key element of male gender intelligence (GQ).

If you are an intrapreneur, i.e. an employee trying to act like an entrepreneur in your organization, entrepreneurial intelligence is even more important. If fact, without it, you could be committing career suicide.

In medicine, you only learn clinical judgement at the bedside. In business, you only learn business judgement, ultimately, from customers,

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs